Helicopters: (The Illustrated History of
the Vietnam War, Vol 11), with Michael O'Leary. New York: Bantam Books 1988.

A Historical
Chronology of the Space Shuttle, from the earliest beginnings through letter contract
finalization, July 1973: an analytical compilation of key technical, political and policy
events,
Vol. I-V, co-authored with John W. Mauer (NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Texas:
December 1988)

"The Tactics of Overland Combat Aircrew Recovery: Operations Against North
Vietnamese Forces," (SECRET, downgraded to unclassified by automatic declassification
schedule), co-authored with Russell W. Vick, Aerospace
Commentary (the classified edition of Air University Review, the
professional journal of the U.S. Air Force), Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1968).

"The South Atlantic War: Lessons and Analytical Guidepostsa Military
Historian's Perspective," The Regionalization
of Warfare: the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, Lebanon and the Iran-Iraqi Conflict, James
Brown and William P. Snyder, ed. (New Brunswick, New Jersey; 1985), pp. 55-75.

"Terrorism: Political Challenge and Military Response," William P. Snyder and
James Brown, ed., Defense Policy in the Reagan
Administration (Washington, D. C.: National Defense University Press, 1988), pp. 115-142.

"Ballistics in the Black Powder Era: a cursory examination of technical factors
influencing the design of ordnance and of the emergence of ballistics as an applied
science," Royal Armouries, Conference
Proceedings 1, Robert D. Smith, ed. (HM Tower of London, England, 1989), pp. 73-98.

"Bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail: A Preliminary Analysis of the Effects of Air
Interdiction," Air Power
History, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Winter 1991), pp. 3-17.

"The Logistics of Sixteenth Century Warfare at Sea: The Spanish Perspective,"
John Lynn, ed., Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western
Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present (Boulder,
Colorado; Westview Press, 1993), pp. 109-136.

"The Earliest Shipboard Gunpowder Ordnance: An Analysis of Technical Parameters
and Tactical Capabilities," Proceedings of the
XXIVth International Congress of Military History (Lisbon: Centro Cultural de Belém, 1999).

Review of Geoffrey Symcox, The Crisis of French
Sea Power 1688-1697, From the Guerre d'Escadre to the Guerre de Course(The Hague; Martinus Nijhoff, 1974), Canadian Journal of History, Vol. XI, No. 2
(August, 1976), pp. 244-46.

"Social Change and Military Service: The Integration of Women Cadets at the U.S.
Air Force Academy," Journal of Higher Education,
Vol. 54, No. 5 (September-October, 1983), pp. 574-581, an essay review of Judith Stiehm, Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the U.S. Air
Force Academy (Berkeley:

Review of Lucette Vanensi, The Birth of the
Despot: Venice and the Sublime Porte, Arthur Denner, trans.(Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press,
1993), and Palmira Brummett, Ottoman Seapower and
Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery (Albany, New York: State University of New
York Press, 1994), The International History Review, Vol. XVII,
No. 4 (November 1995), pp. 772-775.

Review of Brian M. Downing, The Military
Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992) and
David B. Ralston, Importing the European Army: The
Introduction of European Military Techniques and Institutions into the Extra-European
World, 1600-1914(Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1990), The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol.
XXV, No. 3 (Winter 1995), pp. 267-69.

Review of B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley, Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam
Generation was Robbed of its Heroes and Its History (Dallas, Texas: Verity Press,
1998) in The Journal of Military History, Vol. 64, No. 3
(July, 2000), pp. 910-911.

A series of three invited lectures at the Museu Naval, Rio de Janeiro, for the Serviço de Documentação Geral da Marinha, the
Historical Service of the Brazilian Navy, addressingthe application of nautical archaeology to the study of maritime history.The lectures were based on analysis of artifacts
from the Portuguese galleon Santíssimo Sacramento,
lost in 1668, recovered by Brazilian Navy divers under archaeological supervision during
1976-71, and studied in situat Salvador, Brazil (October 24, 25 and 26, 1978).

"The Tactics of the Battle of Lepanto Clarified: The Impact of Social, Economic
and Political Factors on Sixteenth Century Galley Warfare," U.S. Naval Academy Fourth
Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, Maryland (October 26, 1979).

"The Historical Origins of Air Force Leadership," USAF Squadron Officers
School (the leadoff academic lecture for the eight and one half week course for selected
junior officers, given six times annually), 1980 through spring 1983; the last appearance
as an invited outside lecturer.

"Changing Technology and the Profession of Arms: 1914 and Today," USAF Air
Command and Staff College, classes of 1980, '81, and '82.

"The Care and Feeding of XVIth Century Galley Crews: Dietary and Economic Input,
Physiological and Military Output," Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
invited lecture presented under joint History Department and Department of Sociology
sponsorship (April 21, 1981).

"On War: the Significance of Carl Maria
von Clausewitz and His Work," USAF Air War College, Montgomery, Alabama, annually,
1981-1992; the lectures for the classes of 1985 to 1992 were presented as an invited
outside lecturer.

"Military Leadership and History," USAF Air Command and Staff College, (the
leadoff academic lecture for the nine month course), classes of 1981, '82, '83, and '84;
the last appearance as an invited outside lecturer.

Chair, "The Role and Organization of the Military," Nuclear Deterrence: Implications and Policy Options for
the 1980s, International Standing Conference on Conflict Studies, an invitational
conference jointly sponsored by North East London Polytechnic and the School of Peace
Studies, University of Bradford (Danbury Park, Essex, United Kingdom: September 5, 1981).

"A Case Study in the Application of Technological Historical Analysis of Early
Modern Naval Ordnance: The Cannon of the Portuguese Galleon Santíssimo Sacramento, Lost off Salvador, Brazil,
in 1668," 1982 Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology and
Conference on Underwater Archaeology, Philadelphia (January 7, 1982).

"Military Experience, the Military Historian and the Reality of Battle,"
invited paper presented as a guest of the Shelby Collum Davis Center for Historical
Studies, Princeton University (October 8, 1982).

"The Earliest Origins of the Space Shuttle: Abstract Precursors to Concrete
Reality," lunch talk for the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Chapter of the American
Institute for Astronautics and Aeronautics (LBJ Space Center, Houston; October 12, 1983).

"The European Military Revolution of the Middle Ages: Causes, Effects, and
Consequences," invited presentation at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (June 6,
1984).

"Technology, Primary Group Cohesion, and Tactics as Determinants of Success in
Weapons System Design: a Historical Analysis of an Interactive Process," co-authored
with Daniel W. Jacobowitz, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
(Washington, DC; August 31, 1984)

"Clausewitz and Jomini: an Analysis of Contrasting Approaches to the Theory and
Practice of War," USAF Air Command and Staff College, annually 1984-89 and 1992; the
lectures for the classes of 1985 to 1990 were presented as an invited outside lecturer.

"Ideology and Conflict in the Sixteenth Century, Christianity versus Islam: The
Wars of the Ottoman Empire from the Capture of Constantinople, 29 May 1453, to the Treaty
of Zsitva-Torok, 11 November 1606," at the Journal
of Interdisciplinary History-sponsored by-invitation conference, "The Causes and
Prevention of Major Wars," the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
(October 22-24, 1986).

"Naval Ordnance in the European Penetration of the Caribbean: the Operational
Dimension," invited guest lecture for HM Royal Armouries and the Nautical
Archaeological Society, presented at the conference "Guns from the Sea: Ships
Armaments in the Age of Discovery, Current Research and New Discoveries in Early
Artillery," (November 22, 1986).

"Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Nature of Naval Warfare," presented at the
annual meeting of the American Historical Association as part of the Panel "Concepts
of the Nature of War: Theorists' Assumptions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries," Chicago, Illinois (December 28, 1986).

"Ballistics in the Black Powder Era," invited guest lecture for HM Royal
Armouries, presented at the conference on artillery and fortifications, held at Fort
Nelson, near Portsmouth, England (November 29, 1987).

"Napoleon's Operational Art," USAF Air War College, invited lecture for the
class of 1987.

A three lecture series entitled "Positional and Guerrilla Warfare in the Early
Modern World: A Matter of Balance," presented at the University of Illinois at
Champaign-Urbana, March 2-4, 1988.The
lectures were the core of a mini-course offered under the auspices of the Midwest Military
History Consortium consisting of the University of Chicago, the Ohio State University and
the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

"The News Media, the Congress and the Public Debate of Foreign Policy Issues: a
Personal Perspective," an informal invited presentation for the Program in Arms
Control, Disarmament, and International Security, The University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (March 2, 1988).

"The Second Horseman: War, the Primary Causal Agent in History," invited
lecture at the Texas A&M University Conference, What
Is the Engine of History?, College Station, Texas (October 26-29, 1988).

"Black Powder: Alchemy's Crown Jewel, or Midwife of Modern Science?" invited
lecture for the Metropolitan Seminar for the History of Technology, City University of New
York Graduate Center, New York (November 11, 1988).

"Air Interdiction; Bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail as a Case Study: A Preliminary
Analysis of U.S. Efforts to Impede the Flow of Supplies and Replenishment to Communist
Forces in South Vietnam, 1965-1972," presented at the 1989 Meeting of the Southwest
Social Science Association, Fort Worth, Texas, on the panel "Air Power and the War in
Vietnam," co-sponsored by the Southwest Historical Association and the
Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces Society (March 29, 1989).

"The Technology of Medieval Warfare at Sea," The Annual Meeting of The
Medieval Academy, Vancouver, British Columbia (April 6, 1990).

"The Logistics of Early Modern Warfare at Sea: The Spanish Perspective," an
invited paper for the biannual conference of the Midwest Military History Consortium,
consisting of The University of Chicago, The Ohio State University and the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana-Champaign (October 5, 1990).

"Francisco Pizarro and the Overthrow of the Inca Empire," an invited informal
presentation (in Spanish) at the Escuela de Estudios
Hispano-Americanos, Seville, Spain (October 16, 1991).

"Victory Was Possible in Vietnam," an invited paper presented at The Tenth
Presidential Forum on turning points in History; Mississippi State University (November
20, 1991).

Chair, Strategy and Fortifications in Early Modern Europe," Annual Meeting
of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, San Juan, Puerto Rico (April
25, 1992).

"1492-1992: Columbus and the Columbian Exchange," a lecture for the Otemon
Gakun University [Osaka, Japan] 1992 Summer Seminar at the Ohio State University (August
5, 1992).

Uncertainty and Risk in War: The SS
Mayaguez Incident and the Battle of Koh Tang as a Case Study, presentation for
the USAF Air Command and Staff College Air Campaign Course, Maxwell AFB, Alabama (January
6, 1993).

"Technology and Strategy: What Are the Limits," presented at the U.S. Army
War College Strategic Studies Institute Fifth Annual Conference on Strategy, Carlisle
Barracks, Pennsylvania (27 April 1994).

"The Historiography and Substance of the Military Revolution," invited
Society of Military History Luncheon Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American
Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois (January 6, 1995).

"Black Powder Ballistics and Bronze Cannon Founding in the Early Modern Era,"
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Colonial Maritime Association, Columbus, Ohio
(February 25, 1995).

Commentator, "The Battle of Dien Bien Phu: A Reassessment of Why it Was Fought and
an Examination of Its Legacy Since 1954," Annual Meeting of the American Historical
Society, Atlanta, Georgia, (January 5, 1996).

Chair and Commentator, "Siege Warfare in Early Modern Europe and America,"
Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History, Washington, DC, April 20, 1996).

The Strategy-Technology Nexus: A Technological Forecast in Intellectual and
Social Context, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Conference, The Art of War in the 21st Century, Washington, DC
(April 30, 1996).

Venice and Her Enemies, 1453-1573: A Case Study in Strategic Flexibility, The Mediterranean as an Element of Maritime Power
Colloquium of the International Commission of Military History, Venice, Italy (September
17, 1996).

"The State of Military History in North America: The Military Revolution
Debate," L'Histoire militaire hors de
Allemagne, Italié et dans le monde Anglo-Saxon, conference sponsored by the Centre d'études d'histoire de la Defénse (the
Historical Branch of the French Ministry of Defense), Ecole Militaire, Paris, France
(March 7, 1997).

Commentator, Seventeenth Century French Military Affairs, Annual Meeting of
the Society for Military History, Montgomery, Alabama (April 12, 1997).

"Technology and Asymmetrics in Modern Warfare," U.S. Army War College
Strategic Studies Institute Ninth Annual Strategy Conference Challenging the United States Symmetrically and
Asymmetrically: Can America Be Defeated?, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania (April 1,
1998).

Teaching the Air War, and Teaching Military Aspects of the Vietnam
War, presented at the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University Conference for High
School Teachers, Lubbock, Texas (June 12 and 13, 1998).

The Development of Gunpowder Ordnance at Sea, 1300-1600: Technological
Parameters, Tactical Capabilities and Strategic Implications, XXIV Congress of the
International Commission of Military History, Lisbon, Portugal (August 26, 1998).

Commentator, Navigation, War and
Science during the Old Regime, Geoffrey Symcox and Brett Steele organizers, William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California Los Angeles Center for
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth Century Studies, Los Angles (November 20, 1998).

U.S. Air Force. Combat Rescue Operations in the Vietnam War, from the First to
the Last and Next, U.S. Air Force Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB,
Montgomery, Alabama (January 21, 1999).

The SS Mayaguez Incident and the Battle
of Koh Tang: A Case Study in Dealing with Fog and Friction across Service
Boundaries, U.S. Air Force Advanced School of Air Power Studies, Air University,
Maxwell AFB, Alabama (January 21, 1999).

Commentator, The Military History of British India, and Building
Armies in Seventeenth Century Europe, Annual Meeting of the Society for Military
History, State College, Pennsylvania (April 16, 1999).

"The American Edge: How the American Aviation Industry Saved the World for Freedom
and Democracy with a bit of help from the United States Army Air Forces, the United
States Navy and Great Britain!," Research Colloquium, National Museum of American
History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (December 4, 2001).